The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-28

natural phenomena Of the islands than
by any inducements they have to settle
or invest in the country. This ought
not to be; but, unless the Government
are observing the injunction to keep
one hand in the dark as to the action
Of the other, little or nothing is doing
to change the order of things referred
to. Not that our glorious climate, our
grand scenery, beautiful valleys and
awful volcanoes should be screened /;
but that the more practical resources
Of the country should be both made
available for development by outsiders,
and their nature and extent be made
universally known to the outside world.
There is an infinite deal of work wait
| ing to be done both here and abroad
in these respects, II only the nation
ever has the blessed fortune of prac-
teal and progressive Administration to
undertake the service.
| AT home every impediment to the
settlement OF available land for cult
walton or grazing purposes should be
removed. The greedy landgrabbing
rings and individual public robbers Of
that ilk require to be summarily and
finally sat upon. If the country has
the good credit abroad which some
people claim, and which undoubtedly
it is its own fault il it has not, money
should be obtained with as little delay
as possible for purposes Of irrigation,
whereby now desert stretches Of deep
soiled valleys, slopes and plains may
be rendered fit for the dwelling place
Of wealth.producing population. This
idea is no Pigment Of an optimistic i'm.
agination, but ought to occur to any.
one from the example set by intelligent
peoples on all sides Of this very ocean.
Then there is the suggestion Of a com.
mercial and industrial museum, on the
model of those now multiplying in
Europe, which this paper has different
times put forward as an institution that
would be of incalculable value for this
country 70 have established in Homo
lulu.
Abroad every one Of the many Ha.
waiian consulates and vice consulates
should be made, if possible, an active
agency for the diffusion Of information
regarding the resources, capabilities
and advantages Of this country, as in
ducements for the attraction Of capital
and population from the plethoric
stores and crowded shores of foreign
lands. The United States Government
has reduced this branch of national
service to science, and would be a
willing teacher Of the Hawaiian Gov
eminent provided the latter, with its
pretensions to heaven-born tutorship
OF surrounding barbarians, should be
humble enough to learn, a monarchical
from democratic realm. 1t is true
that few Of the representatives Of this
Kingdom at foreign capitals are doing
something in the direction indicated;
but, from all that appears in results,
their work in that regard is done
mere in conjunction with their indivi-
dual enterprise and active business
natures, than effected through the pre-
else operations OF a well-devised and
regulated system adopted by the
country that they represent. Some OF
the money wasted in vain masquerad
ing before the view of great nations,
and in assuming an importance thai
Nuio uatiOh Sah uIittSi dttdii III dSCC
nor maintain in the face OF interests Of
lgreat Powers, among our simple island
neighbors, would suffice to sustain ah
effective system in the great centres OIL
wealth and population abroad, for ad.
vertising the country, opening new
markets for its products, and inducing a
flow Of capital and population to its
shores.
She was decorating her room with
pictures, and she perched her hus-
bands photo on the topmost nail, and
then she sat down to admire her work,
and remarked quietly; "Now every.
thing is lovely, and the goose hangs
high. Texas Siftings.
SIDE LIGHTS.
Smeke the Havana Cheroots, to be